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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 4, 1913)
HAPPY HOME COMING FOR ABSENT NATIVES Good to Return to Native Heath and Hear Past Memories. This week the modest little country town where you were lx>rn is calling you home. The people who live there have not seen you for thirty years, and yet some of them still remember. They recall old “Toby,” the good-natured bull-terrier that guarded you so carefully when you first ventured out of the pat ernal yard. They still shake their heads over the imp tha* made a zebra of good Deacon Wilkin’s white horse, and some of them still quote with gusto that famous opening sentence of your graduation essay: “In my opinion, Julius Caesar was a great man.” Out in the world, you have thought little of the old town, , but the town has not lost sight of you. It has seen your name in the paper now and then, and rejoiced in every triumph you have achieved. “He's one of our boys,” the old people say. “We raised him, and we always knew he’d turn out all light.” Have you done anything to justify t.heir interest? Do it now. Go back, and show them that you, too, remember. Show them that you have not lost the lesson of the old town’s simple, homely democracy: that the memory of old kindnesses is still fragrant in your nostrils, and that the example of worthy lives lived humbly yet with dignity is not lost upon you. Small, unimportant, gossipy, and giyen to pettiness, the town may seem to you; but be not hasty in your judgment. Re member that here lived your j father and your mother, and that to them the town offered a sphere large enough to develop those qualities that we call character. They loved it and served it well, and would have liked to serve it still better by having you identi fy yourself with its interests. You disappointed them more than you knew when you left for the city. And now, after all the years, there is nothing you can do that would so please the old people no memorial you can erect that would be so fitting as to go back and renew the old ties, pick up the old acquaintan ces, see what the town needs, search out some lack, and either I by yourself, or with the help of other home-comers, try to fill it. Youth’s Companion. An Absent-Minded Critic. A Young girl recently went up to a policeman in a boston street and told him she had forgotten her name. Her predicament was more awkward but less amusing than that of the late Archbishop Trench. He resigned the See of Dublin on account of his age, and there after dwelt in London. Once, however, he went back to visit his successor, Archbishop l'lunk et. Finding himself in his old palace, sitting at his old dinner table, and gazing across it at his wife, he lapsed in memory to the days when he was master of the house. In the middle of the din ner he looked over at his wife, and remarked, gently: “l am afraid, my love, that we must put this cook down among our failures!” Soule's Protege Cots Place At L. S. U. Barnes ville. Ga., Aug. lib Mr. Robert Howard, a recent graduate of the Georgia College of Agriculture, has accepted the presidency of the State College of Agriculture of Uniisiana, lo cated at Bay wood, La. l)r. A. M. Soule recommended him to the authorities there and his friends predict that he will make u success of the work there. Real Peace of Mind. “One of the unusual things I saw on my vacation in northern Indiana wasacontented farmer,” 1 said Mayor Shank’s secretary to an Indianapolis Star reporter. “We were going in an automo bile on a fishing expedition north of Bass Lake, and we stopped to ask a farmer the road. He was sitting in his yard, whittling. He gave us the information, and just to let him know that we were friendly, I asked him his opinion on politics. ‘That’s something that don’t worry me,’ the farmer said. ‘Why should I worry about poli tics or anything else? Here I am, living on a good farm, got a good bain, and a wife that’s a good worker; why should I wor ry?’ ” Fixing His Nativity. While visiting in the south re cently, a traveler chanced upon a < resident of a sleeply hamlet in Tennessee. “Are you a native of this town?” asked the traveler. “Am 1 a what?” languidly ask ed the man as he rose to a sit ting posture. ; “Are you a native of this town?” “I asked you whether you were a native of this place?” Suddenly they appeared at the open door of the cabin the man’s wife, till 1, gaunt and sallow. Af ter carefully scrutinizing the in truder, she said: “Ain’t you got no sense a-tall, Ira? lie means was yo’ livin’ heah when you was Irnrn or was yo’ born after you begun livin’ heah. Now answer him.” See a Headlight 49 Miles. K. H. Moeller, who recently returned from Kansas, where he has been traveling and making the Panhandle of Texas, received the following letter fromafriend of his who made his first trip through the Panhandle: “1 have been on the road for a Kansas City house now for six years traveling Kansas and Mis souri, but the house has now ad ded the Panhandle of Texas to my territory, and 1 have just finished my first trip. The first town out of Kansas across the strip was Tyrone, Ok. I had spent the afternoon there and in tended to take a night train back to Liberal. A bunch of us were sitting on the front porch of the Commercial hotel when 1 saw a headlight looming up down the 1 track. I made a rush for my t grips and yelled at the boy to get ; his cart and take ’em over to the j depot quick. I didn’t wait for his answer, but ran over to the j depot and rushed up to the win dow ami demanded a ticket for i Liberal. 'How’s this” I said to the agent, “I thought this train wasn’t due for an hour, and here she is not a mile away.’ “‘Mister,’ he replied, ‘you' better go back to the hotel and buy cigars for that bunch. This j is your first trip down here, ain’t] it? Well, 1 thought so. That: headlight is just forty-nine miles j away; you’ve got pretty nearly an hour to finish that game of rummy. This is the longest stretch of straight track in the country, seventy-six miles, clear across the Panhandle without a curve. You see that house over there? That’s where 1 live. I don’t have to light a lamp until after 9 o’clock winter nights. About sundown the Golden State Limited looms up down about lYxhoma and she shines right in to my kitchen window for an hour,* finally getting so bright that my wife has to pull the cur tain. and ton minutes behind her comes No. 34. and it takes seven ty minutes to get by with its light. It’s a great saving for me, and my wife has gotten so she won’t wash dishes by any thing but electric light. 1 never have to call the dispatcher to got a line on tho trains. I climb to the roof of the station, got a line on tho headlight and mark up my board accordingly. Have you any baggage to check?’” — I Fort Wayne-Journal-G&zette. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR-THURSDAY, SEPT. 4. 1913 Why, Indeed? A certain captain had been ] lecturing his new recruits at some length on “The Duties of a Soldier.” At last he thought the time had come to find out just what he had accomplished. Casting his eye over the room, ] he fixed on Private Murphy as his first victim. “Private Mur phy,” he asked, “why should a soldier be ready to die for his country?” The private scratched his head for a while; then an ingratiating smile fitted across his face. “Sure, captain,” he said, pleas antly, you’re quite right. Why should he?” Wasting Time. Enraptured, they gazed, hand in-hand upon the beautiful scene stretched before them in the set ing sun. ’Twas the lake dis trict, and they but three days up on their honeymoon. "Dearest,” he said. Gazing at her fondly, “isn’t this heaven ly?” “Yes, Reginald,” she softly I murmured. “Do you know,” he whispered ardently, “to me life does not seem long enough for our happi ness. Just think, even if we are fortunate, our married life can hardly last longer than fifty years.” “Is that all” she queried won deringly, edging nearer. “Yes, that’s so,” a touch of sadness in his voice. “Only fifty years in which to love each other.” “Then kiss me quick, Regi nald,” she exclaimed, “we’re wasting time.” For Long Term Farm Loans, SEE A. B. HUTCHESON. I am negotiating some very attractive Long Term Farm Loans for the best companies doing bus iness in Georgia, with lowest rates of interest and the most liberal terms of payments 1 have several years experience in the loan business, am located at the comity site and believe that I am m position to give you the best terms and as prompt services as any one. If vou need a loan see me before application. A. B. Hutcheson, Mt. Vernon, Ga. Live Stock Insurance Insure your horse in an old old and reliable company. Low rates—less than two cents a day will guarantee prompt payment of claim. Mo assessments to pay and no risks to run. I represent ] the Atlantic Horse Insurance Co. iof Providence, R. I. Call and : look into the plan. H. L. WILT 1 MT. VERNON. GA. CLINTON P. THOMPSON, Attorney at Law, MT. VERNON AND ALAMO. r Mt. Vernon office Tuesday, Wed- | uesday, Thursday. Telephone. ' PIANO . TUNING. : If your Piano is worth anything, it is worth EXPERT tuning. Any other kind will ruin it. 1 have a diploma, and guarantee all work. Write, and I will call. ORGANS REPAIRED. Charles L. Hamilton, MT. VERNON, GA. E. M. RACKLEY Dentist Office over Mt. Vernon Drug (Jo. MT. VERNON. GA. L. W. RUSH, Dental Surgeon, Ollucs 2d Floor Bank ol Soperton Building, Sopertnn, Ga. ifc ’ 0 < rtf EU! C K I § $ 1$ c / 73 i) Vjl r /<S \ u 3 g I | I 0 ™ E) ' ft These five letters spell the name of the best all-around 0 ft automobile (for the money) in the United States today, 0 % It is a household word throughout the nation, and has been 0 ft sinee machines were invented. No purchaser of a Buiek 0 | was ever disappointed—and never will be. See us at once & I for the new models. If you want a machine at all, you & e want a Buiek. Place your order at once. Wisdom says so. 0 l M’ALLISTER & O’NEAL I * I | I <jj Selling Buicks in Montgomery and Toombs Counties | | UVALDA, SA. I s>ooooooooooooooooooooooo 000000000000000$ A Note to You: Jan. 23. 1913. ' We have no regular delivery wagon as yet. Within a few years air ships will come into general use, and many of our patrons will have deliveries made from our place in this novel and rapid manner. In the mean time, should you not live directly in touch with our drug store, many of your purchases can be forwarded by Uncle Sam’s new mail service— the Parcels Post —delivered right at your door. That class of goods commonly known as merchandise will be forwarded at our expense, free to your door, and we should be glad to have our patrons take advantage of this new and eco nomical method of shopping. P. S. School books cannot be forwarded at the Parcels Post rates. Mt. Vernon Drug Cmpany. ■ ——; FARM MACHINERY If you want ISost Prices on Mowers, Hakes, Disc Harrows, Grain Drills, Buggies land \Y agons, see D. S. Williamson, Alston, Ga. miIMEvTI«ONEY! MONEY! Plenty of Money to Lend $ On Improved Farms at Six per Cent. Interest —Any Amount : From S3OO Up. Re-payment Allowed Any Time. 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